Quotes About Classic

Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

When I read 'The Master', I felt that I had read a true classic. It's so rare nowadays that you have that feeling: it was a privilege to read it.

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to want to write like the classic private-eye writers.

Why does 'I Love Lucy' still make people laugh? Because she's a specific character who has real reactions.

Rita Hayworth in Gilda... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.

I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

I like 'The Graduate.' That's one of my favorites.

'Wheeler Dealers' is the grandfather of all the car restoration shows - it's the originator.

I love 'Bringing Up Baby.' Anything that Katharine Hepburn's in. I'm committed to the Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn era of filmmaking.

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.

St. Elsewhere was certainly a great show.

I want people to be open to the idea of sitting down and reading a Dickens book. They will also have a great time.

I think lots of boys sat down with 'The Three Musketeers' and felt it was a really long book, but then discovered that it's a really gripping swashbuckling story.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

Mrs. Ari's style on 'Entourage' is so fabulous. Gucci is a go-to for her because every season there is something fun, but there's also something classic.

I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.

I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.

I like the original 'Halloween.'

My all-time favourite children's book is 'Green Eggs and Ham' by Dr Seuss. Even as an adult I still appreciate it - what a masterclass in writing.

I sow all sorts of seeds, and get no great harvest from any one of them. I am cursed with susceptibility in every direction, and effective faculty in none. I care for painting and music; I care for classic literature, and mediæval literature, and modern literature; I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

I've made classic records, and going into making 'R.A.P. Music,' I was determined to top the entire legacy of the 'Pledge' series, and the fact that I won a Grammy, and the fact that I was associated with OutKast, and the fact that I'm a Dungeon Family member.

I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read.